Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Great Regulars: Few contemporary poets have used the

device of the symbol more effectively than Waterville poet Peter Harris has in "The Net." Peter writes that the poem "comes from a particular event in my childhood, an early encounter with racism and my complicity in it, growing up as I did in an overwhelmingly white community."

The Net

from Wesley McNair: The Portland Press Herald: Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

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